noun
definition
The currency of Angola, divided into a hundred cêntimos.
Examples of kwanza in a Sentence
Ambaca and Malanje are the chief places in the fertile agricultural district of the middle Kwanza, S.E.
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The word Kwanzaa comes from the expression mantunda yo kwanza, which is Swahili for "first fruits."
The word "Kwanzaa" originates from "Matunda ya kwanza", a phrase that means "first fruits."
A large number of rivers make their way westward to the sea; they rise, mostly, in the mountain belt, and are unimportant, the only two of any size being the Kwanza and the Kunene, separately noticed.
The minerals found include thick beds of copper at Bembe, and deposits on the M'Brije and the Cuvo and in various places in the southern part of the province; iron at Ociras (on the Lucalla affluent of the Kwanza) and in Bailundo; petroleum and asphalt in Dande and Quinzao; gold in Lombije and Cassinga; and mineral salt in Quissama.
The first governor sent to Angola was Paulo Diaz, a grandson of Bartholomew Diaz, who reduced to submission the region south of the Kwanza nearly as far as Benguella.
Of the remaining rivers of the Atlantic basin the Orange, in the extreme south, brings the drainage from the Drakensberg on the opposite side of the continent, while the Kunene, Kwanza, Ogowe and Sanaga drain the west coast highlands of the southern limb; the Volta, Komoe, Bandama, Gambia and Senegal the highlands of the western limb.
South of the Kwanza is the volcanic mountain Caculo-Cabaza (3300 ft.).